Meryl Streep, winner of three Academy Awards, eight Golden Globes, and the inspiration for Streeptease (a series of Streep monologues performed by actors in Streep drag), will be honored with the Ally for Equality Award at the 2017 Human Rights Campaign Great New York Gala in February, according to theThe Hollywood Reporter.

The L.G.B.T.Q. organization is recognizing Streep for her work on films that have entered into the “gay cinematic canon,” according to T.H.R. Arguably, Streep’s most notable work on that front was her performance in the 2003 HBO mini-series adaptation of playwright Tony Kushner’s 1980s AIDS epic, Angels in America. In the mini-series, Streep portrayed an aging rabbi, the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, and the Mormon mother of a closeted court clerk—a performance that included an on-screen kiss with Emma Thompson. Accepting her Golden Globe award for the show, Streep called for equality in a world with problems far beyond the love of two people of the same sex.

Angels is not Streep’s only influential film with queer themes. In 2002’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s novel, Streep played Clarissa Vaughan, a queer woman struggling with the daily ins and outs of her own life, including her relationship with her partner, played by Allison Janney. In a recent interview with PrideSource, Streep recalled the pair’s last-scene kiss and the importance of such portrayals for viewers who get the chance to see themselves—and their real-life relationships—represented on-screen. (She also called the Janney kiss “a perk.”) She said both Angels and The Hours felt to her like important moments of history, not unlike her speech at the D.N.C. this summer, where she spoke enthusiastically for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

“It really felt like being at the Democratic National Convention in the moment that Hillary shattered the glass ceiling—a big deal,” she said.

Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin said in a statement (to T.H.R.) that the organization is honoring Streep for her commitment to the “big deal” issues, for all people.

“Meryl Streep embodies the very nature of what it means to be an ally to our community,” he said.

The ceremony will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on February 11.

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Photograph by Allan Tannenbaum/Polaris Images.

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Photograph by Allan Tannenbaum/Polaris Images.

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